[Edit]: Looks like the Plex web forums is having difficulty rendering the artist’s name because it uses some non-standard emojis. For readability, I’ve simplified the name to use the normal eye emoji rather than the speech bubble eye. The actual name can be seen in the included screenshots. Hi all, …

Wondering, if you edit the Artist in Plex, is there anything in the “Sort Artist” field? What is the album title? I’d like to look this up in MusicBrainz or Discogs and see how they handle it, if they have it. How is the file named on disk?

Here’s the info you requested: ▶ Plex UI artist details ▶ Artist folder on disk In both cases, I use the emoji values as the folder name and the sort name value. And for what it’s worth, Linux sorts this artist immediately before the numerical artists, just like the Plex library is doing in most case…

My advice would have been to add a custom Artist Sort, like “eye click,” but you’ve already addressed that. Hopefully one of the ninjas will either have other advice, or will report the issue to the developers.

[Bug] Artist sorting inconsistent/incorrect on Plex Web and Plexamp

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[Bug] Artist sorting inconsistent/incorrect on Plex Web and Plexamp

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